I've recently been doing a great amount of study of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) for wargaming purposes and was surprised to see the terms "Afridhi" and "Peshwa" with regard to people and/or places of Blackmoor. In RL, the Afridi were one of the more commonly-encountered tribes of Afghans in and around the famed Khyber (aka Khaibar) Pass (along with the Orakzais, Ghilzais, Mohmands, etc.), and Peshwa sounds very much like the well-known city Peshawar (lying just north of Kohat). Does this mean that DA and/or his colleagues were familiar with that part of the world and the Anglo-Afghan Wars, and if so, did they wargame that region's 19th c. conflicts?

It's a fairly safe bet that DA was familiar with Kiplings "The Man who would be King" and British imperial warfare in general. I think, though, that the word "Afridi" was introduced to Blackmoor by David Ritchie.

Give me a few days. I think I found the book that this was based upon.

:shock: :)